Giovanni Battista Savelli

Giovanni Battista Savelli (1422-18 September 1498) was an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church during the Renaissance.

Biography
Giovanni Battista Savelli was born in Rome, Papal States in 1422, and he belonged to the same family that produced Pope Honorius III and Pope Honorius IV. He became a protonary apostolic and Governor of Bologna from 1468 to 1470. In 1471, Pope Paul II made Savelli a Cardinal in pectore (secretly), and he reestablished the peace between Genoa's Fregoso and Adorno families and armed the Papal fleet against the Ottoman Empire. Pope Sixtus IV imprisoned Savelli and Giovanni Colonna at the Castel Sant'Angelo for their role in the Orsini controversy, and he was liberated in 1483. In 1484, he became legate in Bologna, and he served as administrator of the See of Mallorca from 1493. He died in 1498, and he was buried at Santa Maria in Aracoeli.